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The multi-talented Jess Hitchcock will make her way from Melbourne to play a one-off show in Mackay this July.
Hitchcock who will perform at Savour Seaforth has been playing music since she was only two years old, trying and perfecting a multitude of instruments.
“I was a classical pianist, and then I also began playing the bassoon,” she said.
Hitchcock then worked as a jazz tutor, before moving beginning work as a teacher, composer and artist with Australia’s only Indigenous opera company Short Black Opera.
While there, she won several opera awards, despite never being classically vocally trained.
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“As an opera company, we’re about as small as you can get – we’re three people running a little organisation that can bring in up to 80 people,” says Deborah Cheetham.
The founding artistic director of Short Black Opera, Cheetham is also a celebrated composer, soprano, actor and playwright; she established the company with Toni Lalich and Jess Hitchcock in 2009.
Members of the Dhungala Children’s Choir.
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